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80 Extreme Advertisements
Interesting collection of so-called “Extreme Advertisements” from around the world by One Extra Pixel. While these are suppose to be taken seriously, I can’t help but think some of them are way over the top and ridiculous that they are almost comical to me.

iPhone Dark Room
Interesting app created by Swanko Lab that let’s users process their iPhone photos in a digital dark room. The app is fully stocked with chemicals and supplies to give the illusion and fun of processing photos by hand.

1. Sumo Wrestler (K-Town). 2. Sake Wall (K-Town) 3. Governor’s Island Ferry 4. Battery Park

Evolution of World Cup Ball
In the spirit of the World Cup, New York Times has published an interesting look at the Evolution of the World Cup Ball.

Type Con
A nice collection of typography shown in the Flickr: TypeCon pool.

Clients From Hell
As designers we all dread working for those Clients From Hell, why not tweet your nightmare?

I’ve had some free time lately to work on a couple of personal projects that I have been wanting to do for quite a while now.  One of them is to start a small online store selling short-run prints and stock photo sets.  I’m still researching information on types of prints, paper, inks etc., but in the meantime this is a new illustration that I am currently working on and possibly turning into a 12 x18 print.

iPhone 4
As most of you have heard by now, Apple has released a sneak peak at their new iPhone 4 earlier this week. I have to admit the new slick design and features are worth drooling over.

Behance
The popular design community, Behance has recently upgraded their site. The new site is a huge improvement over the previous release and is much more easier to navigate.  The additional much improved load time isn’t too bad either. 

1. Brunch (BK). 2. Shepard Fairey For Target (NYC) 3. Egg Truffle (L.E.S) 4. Vinyl Bike

I’ve been working on a new typeface based off the classic Bauhaus font. This type is made up of solid colors and lots of lines and will be available as a free download. The font will be a handset type (.eps) allowing anyone to easily tweak the color and shapes.

Gravilux, Bubble Harp and Antograph
Scott Snibble created these awesome apps for the iPhone and iPad by combining painting, animation, art and science. The small particles move around gracefully by following your fingertips around the screen.
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Persona
Persona is an ongoing project created by photographer Jason Travis.  He photographs people along with the items they have inside their bags in a very voyeuristic and intriguing way. 

This past Memorial Weekend I got a chance to get out of the city for a little bit and head upstate to the Cold Springs to do some hiking.  Day trips out of NYC are always a good change of scenery.  The trip was really easy and convenient just take the Metro North from Grand Central Station, I believe it’s track 35.  The ride is about an hour and you exit at the Cold Springs stop.  There are a couple different trails you can take, the one we did was the ‘White’ trail and that lasted about 4 hours.  I would recommended doing some lite research on what to bring as far as water and food.  We had 2L of water each which held us over for the entire hike but again, for other trails you may need to bring more.  I definitely recommend this trip if you feel the need to escape the sometime chaotic pace of New York. 

AIGA recently posted their annual Survey of Design Salaries. The report posts salaries for various design position in the U.S. This annual survey is a really useful tool for anyone in the design and advertising field. 

Street Museum iPhone App
Street Museum looks like an amazing developed by Brothers and Sisters.  This app guides users through the streets of London displaying old images over the current view via Geo Tagging and Google Maps.

Colossal Media
I was walking around East Village last week and spotted someone painting a giant mural on the side of a building.  I noticed he was only using regular paint brushes and had a photo as reference of the image he was creating which is really incredible considering the scale of the whole building.  I did some researching and stumbled across Colossal Media which is really similar to what I saw and they even have videos of their process.

Availability Calendar
Availability Calendar is cool little program developed by Creative League that lets users share their availabilities with clients so they when when you are available, booked or on Hold. Really useful for freelancers like me and many others.

I was messing around in illustrator the other day and just started making random icons and badges.  I’m not too sure if I will ever use these for any projects therefore I have it here for a free download. The file type is .ai, so feel free to take pieces and make your own badges or just do whatever you want. Enjoy. 

1. Bratwurst & Sour Crout (Ukrainian Festival). 2. Barcade (BK) 3. Crawfish Boil (Food Festival, NY) 4. Massive Ribs (Food Festival, NY)

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull
Awesome time lapse video of the volcanos in Iceland shot on a Canon 5D Mark II by Sean Stiegemeir.

Strawser & Smith
Stawser & Smith is a furniture store in Williamsburg, BK that specializes in re-purposed industrial past furniture.  They have a nice collection of pieces primarily from the Mid West.
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